CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Tell the CLC to stop blocking debate on Hot Cargo

It’s time for unions and labour bodies to launch an international picket line against Israel, declaring all collaboration with Israel to be Hot Cargo, taking away Israel’s social license, and laying the groundwork for a worker-led embargo.

The CLC is trying to prevent a Hot Cargo resolution, duly submitted by several union bodies, from making it to the floor for debate. Tell the CLC to change course now.

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Survey: Social Media Silos

The Department of Sociology at York University is conducting a study on social media silos and intergenerational organizing, where we suspect that generational differences in social media use pose a barrier to intergenerational organizing. We are trying to reach Toronto activists of different generations to fill out an anonymous online survey.

The anonymous survey asks questions about social media use, political involvement and demographic information.

Complete the online survey and win an opportunity to get a $100 gift card from Another Story Bookshop!

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Mayworks

When: May 1 to May 31
Where: Various locations

The artists of this year’s festival engage with our world as it is. They bring us into the lives of workers, both local and international: a truck driver in Brampton, a health care worker in Thunder Bay, an activist in Montreal, a miner in Morocco, a sugar cane worker in the Dominican Republic, a guide in Palestine, and a contract worker in Mozambique.

Their works raise issues such as wage theft, labour misclassification, technological displacement, union busting, and incarceration as public policy. They also demonstrate how such issues are interwoven into a network of global supply chains, and how communities are organizing as agents of change.

Presented throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, the diversity of works include live theatre, film, animation, installation, music, and pastry making.

Festival Program

Youth Climate Corps Mass Organizing Call

When: Thursday May 7th, 6pm

As our government pushes forward with LNG nation-building projects and more AI data centers, youth unemployment remains at record highs — with 108,000 permanent full-time jobs lost in February alone. The recently announced Youth Climate Corps pilot, which according to our estimates will only employ 350 youth across Canada, falls far short of addressing the scale of the crises we face.

Now is the time to escalate our organizing and build momentum as we gear up to see the YCC pilot launch.

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Save Public Healthcare Meetup

When: Thursday May 7th, 6pm
Where: Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor St W

In medicine, a “Code Blue” signals a life-threatening emergency. Today, Canada’s public healthcare system is in Code Blue — not by accident, but by design. Without urgent action, it risks flatlining.

If you’re among the many Canadians concerned about the future of Public Medicare, this is the moment to connect, get informed, and take action. Join others in your community to learn what’s at stake—and what we can do, together, to protect it.

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Higher Education Organizing

When: May 7th, 6:30pm
Where: College St UC, 502 Bathurst St

The Higher Education Working Group of the Socialist Project invites you to join us for our next organizing meeting!

The Ford government’s assault on higher education doesn’t stop at workers. The recently announced OSAP cuts are a direct attack on low-income and working-class students. These cuts further marketize education, making a naked assertion that the only factors students should consider in their studies are the needs of potential future employers. We must defend public education for the public good.

The next Higher Education Labour Working Group meeting will focus on student struggle and student-worker alliances. We’ll hear from student speakers and explore how higher education workers can meaningfully support student organizing. We’ll discuss how workers can help students resisting OSAP cuts, how student issues can be brought into bargaining demands, and how we can better support student-worker unionization efforts.

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Photography for the Revolution

When: May 7, 14, 21 at 10pm

Join us for an insightful participatory workshop series facilitated by master photographer and journalist David Bacon, designed to help you engage with movement photography more critically. Learn to read photos, analyze context, and discuss how images can inspire real change.

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Planning in the Face of Fascism

When: May 8 to 10
Where University of Toronto, 170 St George St

Planners Network, a network of progressive planners, academics, students and activists based in North America, also known as Turtle Island and beyond, is seeking proposals for the conference celebrating its 50th anniversary: Planning in the Face of Fascism.

The theme of this conference engages the pressing political challenge confronting progressive people around the world, namely, the global resurgence of the phenomenon popularly known as fascism. While there are, of course, still academic debates on the proper name to grasp the nature of the current conjuncture, it is clear that the various situations in which planners work—in relation to forces of state, economy and people – are being decisively shaped by comparatively varied combinations of authoritarianism and the far right.

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Fridays4Palestine

When: May 8th, 3pm
Where: Bloor-Yonge

Come show your support for Palestinians every Friday between 3 pm and 6 pm. Come anytime for as long as you like. Most people come at 5 pm. The location is the Israel Consulate, located at 2 Bloor Street East, on the northeast corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets. Stand up for Human Rights. Raise your voice to say that the elimination of 50,000 people, including 18,000 children, is NOT okay. Will it only stop when another 2.2 million people are eradicated?

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Support Mama Earth Workers

When: Saturday May 9th, 9:30am
Where: Topham Park, 181 Westview Blvd, East York

Join us on Saturday May 9 at 9:30am for a rally in support of the workers of Mama Earth!

As their termination date draws closer, let’s show Mama Earth workers that they’re not in this alone! Why? Over 100 unionized Mama Earth workers received a mass termination notice, effective May 12.

The workers at Mama Earth are demanding the right to choose between keeping their jobs with union representation and a fair severance deal that respects their CBA and full years of service.

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Proportional Representation: Myths versus Facts

When: May 9th, 12noon

Making misleading claims that are deliberately calculated to scare people is the primary tool used by opponents of proportional representation.

Join us for a webinar to look at the common things opponents say against proportional representation, and get the facts about PR.

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Day of Action to Stop Bill 98

When: Saturday May 9th, 1pm
Where: Cedarvale Station, Bus Bay 3

Join TTC Riders in chatting to fellow transit riders, handing out flyers, and gathering signatures to take action against Doug Ford’s proposal to take over the TTC and set its fares and service through Bill 98.

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Hot Cargo Kills

When: Saturday May 9th, 1pm
Where: LCBO, Bloor and Bay

Palestinian trade unions are calling on YOU, our union siblings, to take action. They’ve asked the global labour movement to treat Israeli products, especially arms and military goods, as Hot Cargo.

Labour for Palestine chapters are hosting local events from coast to coast as part of a Hot Cargo Kills National Day of Action on May 9, 2026. To help organize a local action, contact your nearest Labour for Palestine chapter or caucus.

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Screening: Earth’s Greatest Enemy

When: Sunday, May 10th, 6pm
Where: Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard St E
Tickets: $18, children $10

Join us on Sunday, May 10 for a special Mother’s Day screening: one that calls us to unite the movement for climate justice with the struggle against the forces of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, fascism, and genocide, all in the name of defending Mother Earth.

Earth’s Greatest Enemy is the second feature film by journalist Abby Martin — a groundbreaking work of anti-imperialist environmental filmmaking that took Abby and co-director Mike Prysner on a five-year fact-finding journey.

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Sport and Palestine Talk

When: Monday May 11th, 5-7pm
Where: University of Toronto, St. George Campus

Join us for an interactive conversation on sport, imperialism, and Palestine in preparation for the FIFA 2026 Men’s World Cup. Featured speakers include Charlotte Phillips (Palestine National football team), Nathan Kalman-Lamb (University of New Brunswick sociology), Jess Nachman (York University kinesiology), Priyansh (University of Toronto kinesiology), and Dan Sailofsky (University of Toronto kinesiology).

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TWC book club

When: Monday May 11th, 7pm
Where: Bahen Centre

We hear about AI all the time: AI will change this; AI will change that… It is likely time to take some distance with AI and read and discuss about automation and how it can really affect work.

In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav addresses precisely these questions and discusses how automation could affect our work in the future. More than just understanding these changes, it also questions what social movements can do and how society can adapt to these changes.

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Navigating Rising Fascism Together

When: May 12th, 7pm

This workshop is for parents, caregivers, auncles, grandparents, guardians, and all who want to be in liberatory community with children. We will discuss how to explain our current conditions to little ones, how to equip them (and ourselves) and how to organize alongside them to resist and transform our realities.

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Residential School History and Legacy 101

When: May 13th, 8pm

This 90-minute webinar is an introductory look at the history of the residential school system, the legal fallout of the system (the TRC & NCTR), and the ongoing legacy of the system as seen through intergenerational trauma, ongoing systemic oppression, MMWIG2S+, and how healing and reconciliation can begin.

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CUBA Resiste! In Conversation About Cuba Today

Cuba is facing deepening hardship with blackouts, and critical shortages of food, fuel, and medicine. As the crisis intensifies, communities worldwide are coming together in solidarity.

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Breaking the Gaza Blockade

By Macéo and Sama, and Ramiro Giganti

Radionauta, a community, alternative, and grassroots radio station in La Plata, broadcast the testimony of Ramiro Giganti, an Agencia de Noticias RedAcción (ANRed) correspondent who was part of the Argentine delegation that set sail for Gaza last Sunday as part of Global Sumud. The flotilla, composed of 75 boats – a civilian initiative, the largest in history to date – aims to deliver humanitarian aid including food, water, personal hygiene items, medical supplies, school bags, toys, nappies, and infant formula, among other items, to bolster hospital capacity and support Palestinian communities facing an acute humanitarian crisis resulting from the genocide and illegal blockade perpetrated by the State of Israel.

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